whitnebrat wrote:
There's a good chance that Trump will win in 2020, but it will be the ugliest, nastiest, slimiest, close to illegal election in recent history.
This is a man that is pathologically unable to accept defeat, and who will employ any and all means to win, regardless of moral or legal requirements. If he loses, I predict that the US Marshals will have to physically evict him from the White House, after incredible damage to the country through many executive orders and pardons.
These tactics will include (but not be limited to):
1.) The use of insults and name-calling on the national stage to demean and undermine his opponents.
2.) Efforts to interfere with both the delegate selection process and the Democratic convention, so as to produce a candidate that will allow Trump to more easily win the general election.
3.) Voter suppression in many states, including refusing to register or allow certain people to vote, and intimidating them from even showing up.
4.) Using gerrymandered districts to disproportionally skew the Electoral College, thus while losing the popular vote, he wins the EC.
5.) Using the social media platforms, his campaign will spread fake negative rumors and propaganda which will affect either voter turnout or actual preferences.
6.) Per #4, external actors (such as Russia) will do much of the interference with massive BOT attacks and other cyber techniques.
7.) Hacking of opponent's email and websites, probably with foreign assistance, then using it to discredit any opposition.
It will be ugly, despicable, and disgusting …maybe even demonic. It will make most American's skin crawl. It will go down in history as one of the most negative campaigns in history. Even many Republicans will cringe at the rhetoric and underhanded methods that we can expect.
I can only hope (with not much expectation) that at some point some of the hard-core supporters of Trump will hold their noses, shelve their tribal instincts and vote him out of office along with all the other sycophants that have enabled him in the first term.
Maybe I'm looking at this with rose-colored glasses, and hold the insane hope that he won't win, but my stark reading of what's coming tends to turn that rose color in my glasses to dark gray.
There's a good chance that Trump will win in 2020,... (
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Of course. Unlike the dems whose platform is kill babies, allow unfettered illegal immigration, free stuff and orange man bad. Of COURSE President Trump will win.